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ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012)
Untitled (Head of Woman)
.
Oil and oil monotype on cream wove paper, 1959. 349x267 mm; 13
3
/
4
x10
1
/
2
inches (sheet). Signed and
dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, NewYork.
Exhibited:
Remembering Elizabeth Catlett
, June Kelly Gallery, NewYork, January 24, 2014 - February
25, 2014.
Untitled (Head of aWoman)
is a wonderful example of a unique work from Elizabeth Catlett’s mid-career
period.Works in oil - paintings and monotype - by Elizabeth Catlett are very
scarce.Wehave located or
found records of less than a dozen other paintings in private collections - most are small portraits in oil
from her 1940s NewYork period. In the later
Untitled (Head of aWoman)
, we have a fascinating and very
rare moment of experimentation within the oil medium by Catlett.A sculptural quality can be found in
the various mark-making and the flattening of the forms - similar to her iconic linoleum cut,
Sharecropper
,
circa 1952.This is the first unique work on paper by the artist from the 1950s that we have located.
[30,000/40,000]